Filler for grease guns



Filed April 1, 1937 Patented Oct. 19., 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE j FILLER FOR GREASE. GUNS Harold H. Hansen, Dike, Iowa Application April 1, 1937, Serial No. 134,239

, 2 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in fillers for grease guns or other receptacles, and an ob-' ject of my improvements is to supply a simple,

inexpensive and portable device therefor.

Another object of my improvements'is to supply the filler tank of the device with a lateral port and removable closure therefor in its lower nish a pressure member to movably fit within said tank, with means for raising and lowering said member, as in compressing the contents of the tank to thus force delivery thereof by way of the tank port and the delivery spout when the latter is assembled with the tank.

Another object of my improvements is to provide the tank with a removable cover closure shaped for releasable securing engagement with the top of the tank and with reinforcing means on the closure, and also to provide reinforcing means for the pressure member, and the pressure member being connected to the means for raising and lowering the same in the tank.

These objects I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described, claimed, and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.

Fig. 1 of the drawing is a vertical central cross section of the tank and its cover, also showing the removably connected delivery spout in place on the tank for delivery of its contents therethrough. Fig. 2 is a side elevation'of the device, showing an imperforate closure member seated in a slideway on the tank in closing the tank wall port. Fig. 3 is a top plan of the tank cover, and Fig. 4 is a detail elevation of said spout and its apertured closure plate for insertion in said slideway, the tank wall being broken away.

It is to be understood that the details of con- 7 struction of the elements and devices of my invention may be altered variously in themselves or their connections without departing from the invention or the scope. of the appended claims.

The open top tank 1 has a cover 9 with integral surrounding depending bendable catches M. The upper end of the tank wall is inverted outwardly angularly upon whose outer rim l1 the catches M may be bent and releasably engaged. The cover 9 may be depressed as shown or not as desired, and is reinforced (see Fig. 3) by a cruel: form stiffening body with arms In and II and a raised medial block along the members II at l3 which is medially apertured and threaded to seat therethrough adjustably a threaded stem l5 projecting upwardly with a crank handle IS. The

cruciform body may be secured upon the cover by the screws l2 or otherwise.

Upon the lower end of said threaded stem 15 below the cover 9 is a circular pressure disk l8,

Which, with a top discoidal reinforcement 2i and a bottom cruciform member 20 similar to the other cruciform member-illll but with a boss, are centrally apertured and threaded, and the disk is end secured by a nut or other stop 22 as 7 shown in Fig. 1. The cruciform member 20 may be secured to the disk It by screws H! or otherwise.

The tank I has a lateral port 3 near its bottom, and slideways 4 are mounted in' parallel horizontally above and below the port toreceive as shown in Fig. 2 a slide closure, imperforate,

at 5 and having a handle lip at oneend. When l it is desired to deliver some part of the semisolid grease in the tank as compressed by turning the shaft I5 to lower the'compression head I8, the imperforate closure 5 may be removed and the other closure or slide which has a port opening, at I, may be mounted in the slideways with its port in registration with the tank port .3, and grease voided to another receptacle, such as a grease gun, through the spout 8 when the crank handle is rotated. The apparatus is portable, quickly disassembled, and of inexpensive construction, hence may be carried upon a tractor or other vehicle. The tank may have a bail '2 V for carrying purposes,

I claim: 1. In combination, a receptacle having a lateral port, a spout in outer communication with said 7 port, a cover, centrally apertured and removably secured upon the receptacle, reinforcement means V mounted on said cover, a threaded crank-shaft extending through the cover aperture into the. receptacle and carrying a compression head therein, and reinforcement means'mounted on the compression head. r

2. In combination, a receptacle having a port,

a spout in removable closable communication with said port, a centrally threaded apertured cover for the receptacle, a threaded shaft seated in said aperture and having a crank-handle without the 7 cover, a compression head mounted on the inner;

end of said shaft, the receptacle having engaging 'means therearound at its upper end extending.

outwardly, and the cover fitting the upper rim j of the receptacle andhaving'a plurality of spaced marginal bendable catches therearound adapted i to be bent to secure the cover to the receptacleby embracingly engaging said engaging means removably.

. HAROLD H. HANSEN. 

